ACA costs not so easy to predict

The letter to the Open Forum on Nov. 4 by Warren Pegram was well written and accurate on many numbers. His main premise was wrong to say “the $2.85 trillion cost of Obamacare.” This presumes there were not health care costs prior to the ACA. He needs to tell us how much ACA will add to the health care bill for Americans. Take your choice of hundreds of analyses, pro and con, by Googling “Obama Calculator.” It will take a couple of years, at least, to shuffle through all the costs to determine positive or negative.

The deficit has declined each year under Obama and at the fastest rate since the Great Depression. His 2014 fiscal budget projects a decrease in the deficit over that of the 2013 deficit.

Most people do not recall polling over previous decades that found around 70 percent want to cut the constant increase in health care costs. Obama projects a continuing decrease but I will believe it when I see it. I am still fed up with it. Our per-capita cost is $7,080 as compared to next highest or France at $4,840. We rank 37th on effectiveness in the World Health Forum.